Because it IS fucking annoying, mostly because it shows a serious lack of respect. Giving a donation to a candidate, no matter how worthy, gets you put on a global “sucker” list that will cause every scam-PAC and hopeless candidate to send you begs for money.
You're still making assumptions there, though. Some campaigns sell the data, some rent the mailing lists, some have media consultants who copy the lists, some have employees/volunteers who copy the list, some share it with the state party or DCCC, and who knows what ActBlue does
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You are right about that, but this is often visible in the data. Almost always, the emails are marked by who sent them on behalf of whom, such as "This email sent by Romney 2012" to my "Rubio 2016" email address. ActBlue has dramatically changed the rules, though.
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I'm super curious in tracing how this stuff gets disseminated. I get salty at accusations that "a campaign sold my data!" because I've worked with campaigns that acted entirely ethically, and the lists still somehow got out. I want to understand that better.
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